Covid-19: MDU offers advice for doctors making difficult decisions

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued advice to its members faced with difficult decisions and competing interests during the Covid-19 outbreak. It said that no action to withdraw life-saving treatment which is in the patient’s interests should occur unless the court first rules this is lawful. As the law currently stands, if a doctor is faced with the dilemma of competing interests between two patients and the possibility of withdrawing treatment which is in the patient’s best interests from that patient, in order to treat another patient, the doctor should first ensure their Trust makes an emergency application for a